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Hahahaha. I was in Kingsville for 24 months. #nobogs

I got lucky with a 2.875. My loan officer sent me a text Mar 3 recommending I lock. I kicked around waiting, because people were talking about it dipping down to 2.625 or so. Thank god she hit me with the “now is not the time to be greedy. I HIGHLY recommend you lock this in.”

I’m amazed cruise lines are being considered for the bailout. If the want to duck taxes by registering in the Bahamas or Panama, go to those countries for a bailout package. Maybe they won’t be included in the final bill, but it seems like they are at least included in the talks.

There are USMC NFOs in the training pipeline now who will be in the back of F18s.

Thats why people said Air National Guard, not Air Force.

Question is, if this pops off, which Naval Aviator will have the intestinal fortitude to splash an F-14? That would be like blasphemy right?

Just in case someone wants a shirt from Eddie Gallagher’s lifestyle brand Salty Frog Gear. And before you get all judgey about me shopping at Nineline Apparel, here is the Business Insider article that lead me there.

How do the Bremont purchases go? If I’m going to a new unit, and Bremont has previously made them a watch, do they keep the “plans on file”, allowing me to order a singleton when I get there? Or will I have to wait for a proper group buy?

Whatcha getting rid of?

Tweet reportedly from the shooter.

What are the worth while modifications to make to the flight jacket? Tipsy patches finally came in, so going to get those thrown on and do the side entry pocket mod. What else is good to get done while it’s at the tailor anyway? Blood chit? Hawaiian print liner like I saw on an earlier picture...

It’s interesting to me that SecNav can say “let’s review this guys NSW pin” and that’s okay. When the SecNav’s boss says “don’t review his pin” all of a sudden it’s a civilian overstep in the civ-mil relationship.

I’m sure it won’t go well for me, but this will be my standard reply to XO emails going forward.

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To be fair, in your example, since the whole team posed, not just the Chief, I bet the locals weren’t getting too spun up over whoever the dead enemy was.

A better analogy would be if the Captain was ACUSED of drinking while flying, and then took a nap once at cruising altitude. FAA couldn’t prove the drinking, but put him in jail over the weekend anyway. Once his lawyers got him out and said “hey man, that was BS”, the airlines pulled his wing...

I’m still waiting for the prosecution lawyers to be investigated, and charged, for their actual crimes. Not for breaking articles of UCMJ, but of the constitution.

I am surprised the “senior military advisors” even tried to take his pin. It was obviously against the intent of POTUS, which was to basically leave him alone and let him retire. At this point, I expect Gallagher to go write his book and get paid. And I couldn’t blame him, based on how...

How much did you have them take off the collar? 1/2”?

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2019/05/31/top-marine-approves-planks-as-an-alternative-to-crunches/?utm_campaign=Socialflow+MAR&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com Marines approve planks too.

“Send out your champion”

Sundown was just too much for the Blue Angels to allow.

Theoretically, yes. You could switch Marines and at TBS drop your air contract for a ground contract. You would then be competing with those guys in your TBS company for one of the 20+ ground MOSs.

-18s East, so a “quick” stop in Miramar before heading to Beaufort.

NA wings please. Winged 27JUL18 from Kingsville

I went through that last weekend. Definitely some interesting stuff if it all comes through (like RNAV approaches to F18s this FY).

So, we are nearing the end of the service life for F18s and Harriers and on the horizon, someone will be the last SNA to select those platforms. From a career standpoint, how would that play out? He would always, forever, be the most junior guy in his MOS (until he switched platforms). Would...

What the rules with electronic watches in the vault? I’m still an SNA, but don’t want to get a Garmin Fenix 5 (or any GPS enabled running watch) or an Apple Watch (insert any “smart watch” here) and find out I can’t take it in the vault to study later in my career.

Guess I’ve got my new flow down now. “Captain select, 1stLt Rugby_Guy, VT22 SDO, how may I help you or direct your call sir or ma’am?” “Bro, shut up. I need IP xxxxx’s number.”

If you aren’t using sky vector at home to come up with the route, then using the gouge excel sheet/JMPS to make the card, you are wrong.

Im hoping I can fly my wife back and forth with points we have on a few cards and have it workout so we move right in. I just don’t know how busy I’ll be at the FRS, and if a post-class up move would be doable. But honestly, that’s probably what will happen. Move into something short term...

Newb questions. My wife and I are toying around with the idea of buying a home at our next duty station (in advanced right now). Can I go to Navy Fed and get some kind of soft approval or something that won’t result in a hard credit check? VA Loan limit is $649,750 in San Diego which is...

No fee charged, already used the airline credit to buy a southwest gift card and got the refund in the account.

I’ve found jets to be less stressful than Primary simply because there isn’t an invisible line you are worried about (read: “jet grades”). I show up, do as well as I can, ask questions if something wasn’t making sense and try to internalize that flights lesson. In Primary, I spent so much time...

I was approved for the Chase Sapphire Reserve today, so I’ll report back about the fees being waved soon.

Ended up getting an iPad mini 4 using some credit card points. Still have a few weeks left in the free foreflight I got last year, so I’ll probably use the bump in flight pay to justify extending that subscription myself. Found out my neighbor made his own iPad Kneeboard by sewing the rubber...

If all you want to do is fly, you’re best bet is to stay civilian and work towards regionals. Next would probably be Army Warrant Officers who fly.

We had a monitor road show come through and give us a SNA level career outlook/what does the monitor do for me brief.

Word on the street is that T45 guys can expect 5 year initial orders.

Sorry to dig up a dead thread, but figured this was better than starting a new one. A lot of my instructors flynwith iPads, which makes sense because SNAs can do some dumb stuff sometimes and we fly a lot “in the IFR structure”, so I get having extra SA as an IP. Some of my contemporaries...

Bro, you’re the one in Primary. Go ask your flight lead/class advisor. No one is closer to the source than you. Or poke your head in after every selection and make an excel spreadsheet to fret over every week.

It only matters if you and someone else have the same date of rank. For example, let’s say you and your roommate both commissioned the same day. You’ll both pick up 1stLt in 2 years from that day. When it comes time for captain boards, if they someone how run out of spots when they come to guys...

It’s really hard to fit MCMAP into your daily floating schedule in the training command. Not impossible, but very hard. And as others have said, it only takes one bad fall for you to be med down for a long time. Wait until you get to the fleet, then you can take the gentleman’s course to green...

The only time I remember having a working HUD was during my form checkride, so really the only time it was a major help.

I walk by the seniors Marines office humming the Marine Corps Hymn every now and then just in the off chance I need him to go to bat for me one day.

Everything is a reg in USMC, we can't even pick what colors we wear...

A CQ det went out with zero students, an IP Proficiency CQ. A SNA CQ is supposed to be happening soon, because I know guys have gotten tapped for it already.

For a current timeline, I finished Primary the first week of May 16, didn't start ground school in KVille until first week in October. So that was 5 months and OBOGS was 4.5 months, add in delays getting to TBS and pre-API wait means I'll probably select and pin on Capt while I am still in...

Waiting on a sim today, there was a guy who selected Jets in Jan, got through ground school and sims but never made it to the plane before obogs shutdown. So he hasn't been at the controls of a real airplane Since early Jan and won't fly until early October.

Last question for you Speedmaster bubbas. If I was going to pick up a speedy, I could save a buck buying used, but obviously possibly miss out on warranty stuff. If I plan on using USAA value property insurance, the warranty isn't really worth the AD mark up right? Or am I missing something...